CCEA GCSE Computer Science (Digital Technology) grade boundaries 2026

CCEA GCSE Digital Technology (Programming) grade boundaries 2026

The tables copy CCEA's Raw to Uniform Mark Boundaries for GCSE Digital Technology (Programming) (G9583), Summer 2026. Programming candidates sit three units: Unit 1, the shared core written paper (30%); Unit 4, Digital Development Concepts, a written paper of 1 hour 30 minutes (40%); and Unit 5, Digital Development Practice, a controlled assessment (30%). We use this page for our computer science daily paper, the nearest match.

Uniform marks at each boundary

Subject grade lines, Summer 2026

One tier, all the grades

Unlike CCEA Maths or the sciences, Digital Technology has no Foundation and Higher entries. Everyone can earn an A* from the same papers, and the largest uniform marks are 90 in Unit 1, 120 in Unit 4 and 90 in Unit 5, a total of 300. Unit 5 is the odd one: it is marked out of 60 raw marks but is worth 90 uniform marks, so each raw mark there counts for more than in any other unit. A grade c in Unit 5 needed only 29 out of 60 and earned 54 uniform marks, the same as a grade c in Unit 1.

A worked example

A candidate on the grade c raw boundary in all three units scores 51, 55, 29, which converts to 54 + 72 + 54 = 180 uniform marks. That is the C line. On the grade a boundaries (63, 86, 50) the uniform marks are 72 + 96 + 72 = 240, which is the A line. To get the A* a candidate needs 270, which is 90% of the 300 uniform marks. The A* is set separately in each series.

How 2026 compares with 2025

Unit 1 fell sharply: grade a from 69 to 63, grade c from 57 to 51 and grade g from 20 to 14, a drop of six at each of those grades. Unit 4 rose by one or two marks and Unit 5 by one. Those two moved the other way. The Programming A* has fallen each year, from 277 in 2024 to 272 and then 270. The Multimedia route, which shares Unit 1, had an A* of 277 in 2026.

Using the boundaries

• Unit 5 is marked out of 60 but worth 90 uniform marks, so check the conversion: 29 out of 60 was 54 uniform marks in 2026.
• Unit 4 carries 120 of the 300 marks. Weakness there costs more than anywhere else.
• The unit grades are lower case, the subject grades capitals. A grade c in a unit is not a C overall.

Try today's computer science paper as a timed check. It has 8 questions and 25 to 35 marks, written by us, and it is not a CCEA paper or based on its Digital Technology specification, so use it for general programming practice.

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